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A month ago, the third season of Love, Death and Robots was officially released. Douban 8.6. This figure means that there is also a viewing experience that is comparable to the quality of the first season and can make the audience's brains set off fireworks. Before making any interpretation, I think we must first find out what the words love, death and robot are.
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The title of this episode is also the title of the third episode of Love, Death and Robots. This is the most mixed episode in 9 episodes. But combined with this comment, I think we can notice more touching details that we have overlooked.
first of all, where do we start to understand this seemingly illusory story? To find the third party present in this story, that is, to find the third eye besides the dead Burton and Ivo who dragged the body. In this short 17-minute short film, this eye appeared 11 times, each time with a complex sense of attention, staring at the two painfully marching on Io-< P > Yes, the eye of Jupiter.
This is a real thing in reality. It is a huge storm erythema on the surface of Jupiter, which looks like an eye. It was first discovered by astronomers in the 17th century. When it was first discovered, it was as big as three earths and has existed for more than 3 years.
so what does all this have to do with understanding this short film?
Let's go back to the place where this eye appeared completely for the first time. It was the first time that Ivo fell down and injected himself with drugs. The lens featured her wide eyes and pupils. The next second, a huge eye of Jupiter almost intruded into the viewer's line of sight, and both eyes merged at that moment.
In fact, from this slightly oppressive cut, the author has already hinted to the audience that the laws of time, space, physics and biology that we are used to have begun to become unimportant in this story.
Another time, when the hostess realized that Io was a huge "machine", the word "machine" was followed by a subjective perspective followed by the hostess's line of sight. She suddenly looked at the sky and looked at the huge Jupiter eye that had been staring at her. The boundary between the eye of Jupiter and the eye of human beings is being blurred. The tiny brain can be a vast universe here, and the vast universe can also be a tiny brain. The core of the universe and the human brain, everything has become the same organism, and it is just an organism. That is, "in the sand, there is also a universe."
Under the premise of this "two-way ambiguity", everything in the subsequent story becomes clear. Let's start with the first poem.
"Sleep, how elegant it is. The whole world loves it-Coleridge."
The appearance of this poet can be regarded as a metaphor in itself. Coleridge, one of the pioneers of the English romantic poetry school, is one of his many outstanding contributions that fascinates the later generations. He broke through the limitation of poetry in time and space on the basis of romanticism. He thinks that poetry can transcend time and space and make reality and fantasy blend together. The analogy between sand and the universe I mentioned above comes from him. His appearance, in itself, is already the blur of time and space, the blur of fantasy and reality in this story.
A more important message is very similar to this story. Borges's "Flower of Coleridge"-
In an essay by Borges, it was mentioned that Coleridge once asked, "If a person crosses heaven in a dream and receives a flower as physical evidence that he has been there; If the flowers are still in his hand when he wakes up ... so, what will happen? "
If you replace dreams with hallucinations caused by drugs; Replace that flower with the poem read by Burton's body, and her final disappearance. If you look again, you will find that they are the same story.
And this short film is trying to put forward a possibility for Coleridge's final question, and it is answering. But before talking about this "answer", in order to make everyone understand what I'm talking about as much as possible, let's combine the short film and the original novel to make a more popular summary of the above question:
The main line of the story is the hostess's rush, a typical "countdown narrative"-I dare to go to my destination before the communication in the transfer station is turned on and the oxygen is used up, so as to survive. But in the middle, some "surreal" situations appeared constantly. The corpse began to read poems, the giant appeared, Io said that he was a machine, and Burton was resurrected.
You can't tell the difference between the two, and there is no need to tell what is reality and what is fantasy. But there is one thing you can definitely feel different, time.
The main narrative driving force of this story is "time". In reality, time is linear, with a helmet as a linear countdown, but in those bizarre "fantasies", time is not linear. This short film clearly tells us that whenever he falls into "fantasy", he goes back to "reality" faster than he expected, and even fast-forwards to oxygen for the last time.
So the time in "fantasy" and the time in "reality" exist at the same time. Here, we can move out a more straightforward description in the original book to prove that the time in the dream is not the real time, but it is all finished in a moment. Just when you are about to wake up, at that moment, a complex and complete dream is made. It feels like you've been dreaming for hours, but your extremely tense and long unrealistic state is only a moment in reality. That is to say, at this moment, time has been transformed from a completely objective thing into a product of human perception. What I perceive in "fantasy" is only a moment, which is a moment, and perception is eternity, which is eternity.
Thus, we can get a glimpse of the essence of the problem of "Coleridge Flower", which is actually the time of human perception. So, what is the answer to time? Borges has already given-"I think the problem of time is a real problem. The question of time includes the question of self, because after all, what is self? The self is the past, the present, and the expectation for the coming time and the future. "
the real ultimate answer is self.
Now, looking back at this story, everything is clearly exciting-this planet, because of its various material conditions, has formed a huge machine, which has read half of the "memory data" left in Burton's mind. The so-called "machine" of Io is Solaristic, which is actually a brain, that is, the boundary between the human brain and the inner core of the planet mentioned at the beginning is blurred.
Data is equal to language, so there is a dialogue that transcends life and death, but this brain chooses to read the poems of Burton's brain to answer, guide and hint the answer to the question of the hostess: "I am the world I walk in, and everything I see, hear and feel comes from myself. The poet Wallace's poem, compared with the following sentences, should be the most naked indication of this answer, so I won't explain it much.
Lady: "You said that Io is a machine, and that machine is you"
Io: "Now I see the pulse of that machine with quiet eyes"
This is a romantic fantasy poem by Wordsworth, which is about a girl whom I deeply love but can't reach. Here, Io is also telling the hostess that what you see me is what I am, just like time, just like a machine, just like a brain.
Lady: "That hole (the eyes of Burton's body) is like the highway in her mind."
io: "Yes! Yes! "The soul indexed by marble sails alone in a strange ocean of thoughts."
This is a hymn written by Wordsworth to Newton, which is too suitable to illustrate the value of self and the permanence of thoughts.
As we all know, Newton's body has long since disappeared under the marble monument in Westminster Abbey, but the apple in his mind still lives in the minds of the world.
Three poems, in this story, are like three steps of philosophy, leading to the dome that finally touches the answer, which is bound to bring out the final question and answer, that is, the thrilling dialogue in the short film-
"Machine, what is your function?"
"know you"
The root of everything actually lies in you. That is, "I". So in the end, she must choose to jump off that cliff. At the moment when it jumped off, Jupiter's eye appeared again, as if a huge new star was rushing to her field of vision, and she couldn't tell whether it fell into her eyes or her blue ocean. All we know is that under those eyes is an ocean of thoughts, dotted with stars, like the universe turning upside down, and the disappearance of armor and body no longer means pain and death, just the eternal life of self.
I'm so glad that the last scene of the short film was caught in the eyes of the hostess. It reflected blue light spots completely different from the surrounding darkness, and even we seemed to be caught in those eyes.
I know, it's the eyes of the future with you and me.